Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MARY (104930)

SY 79 NW PIDDLEHINTON RECTORY ROAD (SOUTH SIDE) 12/199 26-1-56 Church of St Mary GV I Parish Church. Tower and south aisle, C15; chancel nave and south porch C16; north porch, nave extensions and general restorations 1867. 1867 work by E Christian. Walls of ashlar and banded flint and rubble with ashlar dressings. Gable ended slate roofs with partial stone- slate verges and stone copings. C15, C16 and C19 parts in the 'perpendicular' style. Plan: chancel, nave, south tower, north and south porches. Tower: 3-stages separated by strings; plinth and embattled parapet; gargoyles to parapet string; corner standards with crocketted finials; rectangular vice turret with loops; square set buttresses; 2-centred south window of 3-lights with vertical tracery and a label bearing head stops; second stage has loops east and west; third stage has 2-centred, 2-light windows having labels with head stops. South aisle: ashlar parapet with gargoyle; window of 3-lights with square head and vertical tracery. Chancel: north and south windows of 2-lights with square heads and labels with head stops; east window of 3-lights under 2-centred head with certical tracery and label with head stops; 2-centred north door with carved foliage spandrels and square label with carved stops. North aisle and nave: east and west windows are C19 of 3-lights with vertical tracery under 2-centred heads with head-stop labels; north windows CI9 of 2 and 3-lights with square heads and head-stop labels. North porch has 2-centred, moulded head with head stop label. South porch has moulded, 4-centred head and continuous jambs. Interior features: north aisle arcade of 4 bays with 2-centred moulded arches, the hollow chamfer of which is continuous with the piers; north arcade piers have 4 shafts with moulded capitals; south aisle has single, moulded, segmental pointed arch having central wave moulding continuous with jambs and respond shafts with moulded bases and capitals, the latter having leaf enrichment; 2-centred, moulded, tower arch, having central hollow chamfer continuous with jambs and respond shafts with moulded bases and capitals, the latter having foliage enrichment; 2-centred, moulded, chancel arch, having central hollow chamfer continuous with jambs and respond shafts with moulded capitals; C19 king-post roof to nave; C19 arch braced collar beam roof to north- aisle; flat roof dated 1756 to south aisle with moulded beams and circular bosses; C18 or C19 plastered, ribbed barrel vault with carved bosses to chancel; squint; Cl9 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels; ogee headed piscina; sedilla with trefoiled tracery; carved angel on south side arcade respond; shallow niches in chancel; C16, C17, C18, C19 and C20 wall plates and monuments; other fittings largely C19/C20. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, pp 207-9, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, pp 312-13. Listing NGR: SY7156997159

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